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Install Geany a fast and lightweight IDE in Ubuntu

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http://ubuntuguide.net – Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME – Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries. Some basic features of Geany: Syntax highlighting Code folding Symbol name auto-completion Construct completion/snippets Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags Call tips Many supported filetypes including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal (full list) Symbol lists C (HowTos)

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Submitted by more on 03/27/2011

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While learning Programming we do need tools to make our work simpler. One such tool is Geany which is basically a text editor with IDE like features, and focuses on simplicity rather than features. It supports a variety of languages which include (but not limited to) C, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, Python, Perl, Ruby, Pascal and Haskell.

Geany is a fast and lightweight text editor and IDE for Linux. Geany 1.22 was released recently with many new features.

Geany comes with a few plugins installed by default, however there are many other useful plugins maintained by community.

Geany is one of the most popular text editors for Linux and it is used by many developers to write code for applications. It is pretty lightweight and includes basic features of an integrated development environment (IDE).

Geany has been updated to new version with many new features and fixes.

I actually want to change the default text editor on my Ubuntu 12.04 from nano to Geany. When I used this code:

update-alternatives --config editor

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Surprisingly, Linux doesn’t offer that many good IDE’s (Integrated Development Environments). I believe this is because back in the day most Linux programmers took out good old Notepad (or gedit in this case), and started coding from that.However, I’m glad to know that there are now two really good IDEs out there, and Geany is one of them.

[other] Geany 33 weeks 3 days ago

I'm about to install Geany and I've noticed there area huge number of plugins and I was wondering how essential they are to how well that it runs and if I'd be okay just running the program as it is. I'm still relatively new to programming and my interests are in Java, HTML, Python and maybe Ruby.

I just installed Kubuntu 13.04 normally from a DVD. Then, using Synaptics Package Manager, I installed geany and its plugins, which I have been using for years now).

Changing Geany themes 14 weeks 1 day ago

Hi all,I'm trying to download and install darker Geany colour themes but I can't seem to make it work. (The Geany info is a little opaque to me) and I'm wondering if anyone using the default Geany of #! has changed their colour themes.How did you do it?

Docky and Geany V1.22 6 weeks 13 hours ago

..hmm, no replies. I guess its something peculiar to my install then. Anyway, no need for an IDE at the moment so Geany is removed. Still curious as to how opening Geany would kill Docky though..